say recently a WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY is as deserving of an annual salary as the teacher"? Because this foundation book in the schoolroom performs actual service. Successful teachers well know the help this "Supreme Authority" is in history, geography, language, and civic classes, not to mention its necessity in work on synonyms, pronunciation, new words, etc. It is a universal question answerer, equivalent in type matter to a 15- volume encyclopedia. 400,000 Vocabulary Terms, Including hundreds of New Words. 30,000 Geographical Subjects. 12,000 Biographical Entries. 6,000 Illustrations and 2,700 Pages. Why not suggest to your superintendent that a copy of the New International be sup plied for your school? Write for Specimen Pages of Regular and India-Paper Editions, Prices, etc. G. & C. MERRIAM CO. Springfield, Mass. NEWSON & COMPANY 73 Fifth Avenue, New York 623 So. Wabash Avenue, Chicago Publishers of THE ALDINE GROUP OF TEXT BOOKS have secured the publishing rights and will soon issue a new and attractive edition of THE MYERS MENTAL MEASURE By CAROLINE E. MYERS Also in connection with this Intelligence Test a new Manual for Teachers entitled HOW TO MEASURE MINDS By the Same Authors for Early Publication THE SELF-FEEDING IRONCLAD DUPLICATOR WHAT WILL IT DO? It will make 50 to 75 copies of handwriting or typewriting in 5 minutes. HOW IS IT OPERATED? The original (or master copy) is written with duplicating carbon paper or ink on your ordinary stationery and is placed in the self-feeding tray together with 20 or 30 sheets of blank paper, from which they are fed to the copying surface one by one, in perfect alignment, at the rate of 10 to 15 copies a minute. WHAT ADVANTAGES HAS IT OVER THE STENCIL PROCESS? It it easier to operate, for any school child of ordinary intelligence can run off copies. It is considerably less expense to use, for the reason that no expensive stencil sheets are needed. It is cleaner to handle, as it requires no printing ink. WHAT DOES IT COST? The complete outfit (size 9x15 inches) costs $50. IS IT SENT ON APPROVAL? It certainly is. Simply send your name and address and we shall ship one to you all charges prepaid, subject to 10 days trial, with the understanding that it may be returned if not entirely satisfactory. THE A. BECK DUPLICATOR CO. Room 410A, 476 Broadway, New York JLC 31:36 Issued the tenth day of every month except July and August Owned and Published by THE NEW YORK EDUCATION CO., 50 State St., Albany, N. Y. PRESIDENT A. R. BRUBACHER, PH. D., NEW YORK STATE COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS CHARLES ALLEN PROSSER, PH. D., DIRECTOR, DUNWOODY INSTITUTE, MINNEAPOLIS WILLIAM PAXTON BURRIS. DEAN COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI H. B. WILSON, SUPT. OF SCHOOLS, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA E. C. BROOME, PH. D., SUPT. OF SCHOOLS, PHILADELPHIA PA. JAMES WINGATE, ASS'T IN ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, N. Y. STATE DEPT OF EDUCATION PROFESSOR WILLIAM S. MORGAN, PH. D., BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA CLINTON P. McCORD, M. D.. HEALTH DIRECTOR, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Albany, N. Y. 22 Successful Educators: Frank Pierrepont Graves 24 Des Moines Meeting of the N. E. A. 27 Educational News and Comment: General News, College Notes, New Annual Subscriptions, $1.50, postage free in the United States, Alaska, Cuba, Porto Rico, Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Philippines. For countries other than these named, the equivalent of 40 cents Amer- ican money must be added to cover postage. Single Copies, 20 cents each postpaid. Date of Expiration.-The date on the label of your paper indicates the time when your subscription expires. Sub- scribers should renew promptly, as we can- not carry arrearages indefinitely. If the magazine is not wanted, kindly notify us to discontinue it at the end of the subscrip- Receipts.-Remittances are acknowledged by change of date following the subscriber's name on the paper. Should such a change fail to appear on the label on the second issue after the date of remittance, sub- scribers should notify us at once. Missing Numbers.-Should a number of the AMERICAN EDUCATION fail to reach a subscriber, he will confer a favor upon the publishers by notifying us of the fact, upon receipt of which notice the missing num- ber will be sent. We guarantee a full year's Changes of Address should be sent one month before the date they are to go into effect. Both old and new addresses must Contributions of 1500 words or less will 956882 |